First real trip of the season report

[6poundtest]

Made my 1st serious trip to the lake yesterday with my usual fishing partner. We had a slower day than I expected but still managed to land 4 of the 5 species in the pond, didn't pick up any perch but did land crappie, pickerel, LM bass and bluegill. A good start to the year when I can say I picked up 2 crappie.

I had made a trip there a couple of weeks ago to mostly play with the HB 598 I bought last fall and did catch a couple just trolling around fiddling with the new HB.

Yesterday, we seemed to find the fish scattered around; not really concentrated around the beds like I expected them to be. The bluegill were well colored and full bodied and that makes me think the spawn is not really on yet, at least in this lake. Caught both male and female 'gills.

We did have a bald eagle for company:



We didn't see him until he flew down out of the tree and headed for the far end of the lake. He circled a time or 2 then pulled a National Geographic stunt and swooped down and grabbed up a fish and brought it back to the tree and ate it. He was still across the pond in a tree when we left. That made a good day a great day!

I'm going to try to get out more this year.

[Crestliner08]

Excellent! Great eagle pic.

["D"]

Great report!! I am lucky to see bald eagles on a regular basis on Toledo Bend. Saw 4 earlier this week. One dove twice and came up with a fish in his talons.